She is bored but open. Tired but quick. Rodney the Rimbaud freak has a lot of questions.

Q. Where would you put Rimbaud today?

A. I dunno. At a rock concert. In our band! Hey, you're Rodney, aren't you? Sure! You're the one with the yellow shirt from this afternoon. I remember your name from Peyton Place. You remember. "Is it up, Rod? Is it up real good? Then go stick it up Allison MacKenzie!"

Q. What do you visit when you go to the zoo?

A. Deer. Llamas. Anything with antlers.

Q. What inspires you?

A. Where? On stage? Screwing? In here? I guess the people I'm with. Me and the band have an inspire pact. People can be down but there's always someone to bring us all up. Lots of things inspire me. The landscape. Movies. Poetry. Beautiful classy expensive dressy things. Arabian rugs. Prayer rugs. Cool clothes like cashmere coats, platinum, mink. Sexy things. It's hard to tell which one. I'm inspired by Hendrix. A lot of dead people. But I'm also inspired by the designer of the classic Cartier tank watch...Jimi Hendrix had large hands. They were tremendous. And he had a big dick.

Q. What is your favorite thing?

A. Right now it's my guitar. A 1957 Fender Duo-sonic, black, with maple neck, Schaller heads, and original pickup.

Q. What do you want to do now?

A. Smoke dope all the time. Play rock and roll. Don't ask me about poetry. I don't want to talk about my childhood anymore. I just want to play rock and roll. Don't ask me about anything before 1974. We could talk about my guitar. I've started playing lead guitar.

Q. Would you like to do movies? Would you like to do anything based on your own writing?

A. Yeah. I'm definitely into movies. They're my next shot. What kind? I dunno. Roger Vadim. I'd do anything. I'd like to do "Redondo Beach" (a poem of two lesbian lovers, one drowns) with Maria Schneider.

Q. With Schneider as the victim?

A. Of course. I'm older than she is. And she's left a string of corpses in all her movies. It's time she got bumped off! Besides, I can't swim. I'd really drown.